A former Fort Campbell soldier has been sentenced to prison in connection with allegations of selling sensitive military information to China. Continue reading
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UK to Acquire £30M Worth of Drones from New Zealand Firm for Ukraine
UK Prime Minister Starmer announced UK contracts worth £30m for drones produced by SYOS Aerospace, a New Zealand uncrewed vehicle manufacturer based in Hampshire to support Ukraine. Continue reading
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird – the American Mach 3 Monster that Fought Space
April 15, 1986. US Air Force Major Brian Shul streaks through the stratosphere fifteen miles over Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya in his Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Flying too high for enemy fighters to reach, too fast for missiles to catch, virtually invisible to radar, not a single one has been shot down in over two decades of operation. Continue reading
US Marines Surpass 1,000 MQ-9A Flight Hours
– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has passed more than 1,000 flight hours with MQ-9A unmanned aircraft in support of service-level training exercises and weapons and tactics instructor courses. Continue reading
World’s First Drone System for Fighting Lightning to Protect Infrastructures
– Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has succeeded in the world’s first experiment to induce and guide lightning using a drone, demonstrating the effectiveness of drone lightning resistance technology and lightning induction technology using electric field fluctuations with actual lightning. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $47M JUMP 20 VTOL Contract for Italy
– AeroVironment has announced it has been awarded a $46.6M contract by the Italian Ministry of Defence for the delivery of its JUMP 20 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) medium uncrewed aircraft system (MUAS). The five-year contract encompasses the procurement of JUMP 20 air vehicles, engineering services, initial sustainment and onsite technical support – ensuring rapid fielding and operational readiness from day one. Continue reading
US Air Force Piloting Hydrogen Energy Tech for Agile Combat Logistics
Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii is testing novel energy technology to provide electrical power and hydrogen fuel in the kind of isolated and austere outposts the Air Force will need in the Pacific theater for its new Agile Combat Employment way of warfare. Continue reading
Quick and Efficient Bicopter Drone
The Falcon Mini is a two-propeller “bicopter” which is claimed to be nimbler, quieter, and more energy-efficient than its four-prop counterparts. Continue reading